At the same time, China should furiously and diligently seek towards expanding and strengthening her influence overseas, especially in the Southeast Asian, South Asian, Middle Eastern, African and maybe South American regions as well. All of these regions are having either underdeveloped or developing countries - All of which China can work together with to pull them up through her Belt and Road Initiative projects.And China will be taking notes of it as well. When the inevitable comes, China would take similar steps and would have Russia to help decouple using Russia's system, reinforcing each other's ecosystem and economy, dampening the negative effect of decoupling.
Regardless of how many times the Chinese MOFA have repeatedly stressed that China is not seeking hegemony - I think China ought to start to build her team somewhere that she could reliably be backed with in case of any full-out confrontation between China and the US-led West (which is growing increasingly obvious in the coming future). China must strengthen her position on her world stage with the backing, support and cooperation of other countries worldwide, before the US-led Western wolves could ever had any chances to try and suffocate and consume China - just like what they did (and intend to repeat) less than 200 years ago.
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